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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaejr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points The COVIDO- pandermic caused the largest enrollrment declines in the history of Arerican public schools. * School cistricts' oerations explain large differences in 2021-22 enrollrents, as districts that spent rmore of 2020--21 in persn saw enrollmrents rebound, while the districts that were renote lcnger saw more students leave. * Enrollment rebounds fel alonc partisan lires. In 2021-22, most districts that voted for Donald Trumop rebounded, vvhile enrollment continued to fall in dstricts that voted for Joe l'den. * Schools' consequential operational decisions stemmed frcm communities' cautious or asser- tive responses t to the oandernirc aid that broader COVID cultural response drove divergent enroilment changes. Districts that spent mor 22-reci222-;i ernc:te face te largest enronllment declines and ar rre likely to see substantial revenue declines associated vith therm. In mid-vlarCh 2020, tre CVID-n1 padier nic shuttered tne nation's schooilsr tthe rest o the school year. The following fall, over 1L2 million K-i2 public school stu- dents left the public scoii sysve--more than one in 37 students. And the p aindem i. was just getting started. Over the first full paneuic s hoe year----while CA/ID eases tuated dramhatically and C&VID vaccines eventually emerged-scho' l1 districts offered a mix ofi remote, in-persi , and xybrid options. By year-end, districts' sin tota of irper son instruetion differed dramatical. So did K--12 e roilments in the second pandemic school year. ''is report examines the pandemic's effect on pub lie school enroll merit tnrough the .2021.-22 scnool. year overall and by district characteristics including instructional offerings. Enrollment ehanrges have sect- ous consequenees for school distr.cts in not ont student wellbeing and parent satrsraction but also icng-term revenue, 'these enriilment data represent tile aggregaton of weighty decisions nmilions of fani- lies across the country made at the kitchen table, The sharp enroilment deciines provide a sobering, itf interim, answer to the ouestion tacit'g school districts after the dramatic intia pandemi.c ericilment declines: Will stu- dents return to public schools? This report describes pandemi enrolinrent cianges for 48S states and projects potential revenue implications scho? districts face. I begin by shlowir overall enr0l- mert enarnges over tne tnree years of the pandeic nationally and by state. Next, I describe differences K